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Health Occupations > Medicine > Emergency Medicine

Preferred term

Emergency Medicine  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The branch of medicine concerned with the evaluation and initial treatment of urgent and emergent medical problems, such as those caused by accidents, trauma, sudden illness, poisoning, or disasters. Emergency medical care can be provided at the hospital or at sites outside the medical facility.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Medicine, Emergency

In other languages

  • French

  • Médecine des urgences
  • Médecine urgentiste
  • Oxylogie
  • Oxyologie
  • Urgentologie

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XMW35QQR-S

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